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PAIRING: Willow/Tara
Love Through Touch
By Nyka
Part 31
Willow was worried. Usually they'd have heard some sound from the room. Maybe they were in deep discussion. They had to be, they didn't have quiet sex.
"Eaves dropping?"
Willow turned guiltily from where she stood, her ear pressed against the wall next to the door.
"No" She lied unconvincingly.
"Uh huh" Jean shook her shaggy head "Your nosing around, just admit it. I won't tell"
"I'm not....nosing....I'm making sure they're still alive" Willow gestured towards the closed door "They haven't made a sound in minutes"
"Were you hoping they would?" Jean circled Willow, looking interested.
"Well, they could atleast show 'some' signs of life" Willow glanced hurriedly towards her own bedroom door. Tara was inside reading a new spell book.
"You wanna hear 'em boink don't ya?" Star asked coming out of Dawn's room "You wanna hear the nasty" she taunted grabbing Jean's hands and dancing around.
"Willow wants to hear the nasty"
"Willow wants to hear the nasty"
They chanted tauntingly.
Willow rolled her eyes and crossed to her own doorway.
"I do not. And I'm gonna prove it by going in my own room"
"She's gonna 'make sounds' with Tara" Jean smirked at the younger girl "Maybe we should listen in. You know make sure there are signs of life"
Willow blushed furiously and slammed the door.
"What's wrong baby?" Tara asked when Willow slammed the door and leaned against it.
"There's a Mini-Anya and Mini-Xander after me" Willow thumbed towards the door.
"They're not having sex Will, if they were you'd hear them" Tara turned back to her book barely able to contain her smile.
"Oh god" Willow slid down the door and buried her face between her knee's.
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They hadn't made a sound all night.
It was now well into the morning and neither Buffy nor Hyatt had left the room.
Even Dawn was worried.
"Maybe they've killed each other" Star said excitedly "Wait. That would make me an orphan"
"Join the club" Jean remarked curling a piece of her shaggy hair around a finger.
"They didn't kill each other" Tara assured both girls "They're probably just-" she was cut off by a knock on the door "talking. I'll be right back"
"They killed each other" Jean whispered.
Star's jaw dropped and her eyes began to water "You really think so?"
"Of course not" Dawn gathered her into her arms "Jean was just kidding. Right brat?"
"Yeah, kidding" Jean admitted cracking a smile "I just wanted to see you squirm"
Star slapped Jean's arm "That was mean"
Jean shrugged.
"Hey Dawnie, hey Jeanie, hey munchkin" Anya bounced in taking a seat next to Dawn.
Star immediately climbed into her lap and hugged the stuffing out of her.
Dawn smiled and stood to go watch cartoons in the living room.
Everyone missed the look on Jean's face.
"I am never driving you anywhere again" Giles went straight to the sink dropping his tie and turning on the cold water.
"I'm sorry G-man" Xander looked half wrecked "I was so not aiming for you"
"Well you....got me" Giles turned his back on Xander and started to furiously rub at his tie.
"What happened?" Jean poked at the fruit on her plate.
"Xander got carsick on Giles new tie" Anya said wiggling her eyebrows at the child.
"I was not aiming for the tie!" Xander sat in Jean's chair lifting her up and placing her in his lap "You believe me right"
"Yeah, and even if you were aiming for Giles" Jean leaned in close "Way to go with the new tie"
"I heard that you little imp" Giles called from the sink "Whenever in my car your riding in the backseat"
"I'm under 12 it's the law" Jean rolled her eyes.
"Not in California" Willow said coming downstairs "It is in most eastern states. Where exactly are you from?"
Jean just shook her head offering no answer.
"But Jeanie you have to belong to someone, there has to be someone missing you" Xander looked her in the eye.
She gave him a solemn silent look.
"Well we like you here, you can stay with us!" Star smiled at her friend. She knew Jean wasn't happy with where the conversation was going.
Buffy entered behind Willow, much to everyone's surprise "Hey guys what's the what?"
"Not much Buff" Xander said saluting the slayer.
"Xander got carsick on Giles new tie" Star and Anya chorused.
"Way to aim" Buffy said stealing fruit.
"I was not aiming!"
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Tara didn't return to the kitchen. She had a feeling there was somewhere else she needed to be.
When she walked past Buffy's door she peeked in.
The room was empty but she could hear the shower running.
She decided to wait.
Minutes later Hyatt emerged wrapped in a fluffy towel.
"What's wrong?" Tara asked without preamble.
"Nothing. Why do you think something's wrong?" Hyatt went immediately to the drawer holding her under clothes.
"You won't look at me and your eyes are poofy" Tara turned from her spot on the bed so that Hyatt never left her line of vision.
Hyatt slid her underclothes on from under the towel. She turned to Tara when she was done "Pure speculation"
"Nope. I can sense something's bothering you" Tara patted the bedding beside her. The fact that the bed was rumpled but made didn't escape her.
Hyatt sat down next to her, running her fingers through her damp hair "I messed up Tara. I hurt her"
"What happened? Is it Madison?" Tara moved closer when she noticed fresh tears on her friends cheeks.
"Yeah. We were lovers" Hyatt whispered.
"I know" Tara took her hand "But how did you mess up?"
"We were lovers. For four years all I did was live for her. Anything she'd ask of me I did. But then it was over, and I wanted to die. I probably would have if it hadn't been for Mycah" Hyatt took a deep breath "I loved her so much I'd of rather been dead then live without her. And I brought her into Buffy's house. But I never said a word. No warning, not even a hint that I ever felt that much for her. And how does Buffy hear it from first?"
"The one woman she thinks she has to compete against" Tara nodded "Yeah that would bother a girl"
"Ya think? She wouldn't look at me. The whole time I was talking to her last night, she wouldn't look at me. Just stared out the window" Hyatt fisted the tears from her eyes "She just stared out there like the only thing she wanted at that moment was to be free. Of me"
"No" Tara grabbed Hyatt and shook her "She'd never want to be free of you. She's hurting because she loves you so much"
Hyatt gasped and swallowed when Tara touched her skin. She could 'feel' how sure Tara was of what she was saying. She could also feel the fear that Tara felt of she and Buffy losing each other.
"I'm sorry" Tara released her quickly when she saw the far away look in Hyatt's eyes "I didn't mean to hurt you"
"You didn't hurt me. It's just that-" Hyatt took a deep breath "There's so much 'feeling' inside you. It's almost overwhelming. The way you feel is so pure it's-" she paused frowning as she tried to think of the word "it's angelic"
"Oh me, I'm far from an angel" Tara scoffed even as she blushed furiously "I'm just a plain old Tara"
"You can lie to yourself but don't lie to me" Hyatt nudged the girl "I can 'feel' it. You just feel you"
"Willow feels me too" Tara said with a sudden smirk.
Hyatt gave her a look.
Tara thumbed towards the open doorway and mouthed "Faith"
Hyatt rolled her eyes "I'm sure Willow enjoys feeling you"
"Inside and out" Tara assured her, purposely saying it loud enough that Faith could hear.
There was a muted thump from down the hall.
"They're at it again?" Tara giggled.
"You'd think they'd of had enough of each other last night. Right Faith?!" Hyatt called.
A muffled 'shit' was heard as the nosy slayer quickly left earshot of the conversation.
Both had a good laugh over that before settling back into their conversation.
"So I take it that Buffy finding out the Maddy thing didn't go all roses did it?" Tara pushed further back onto the bed and sat cross legged.
"She left. When I finished telling her, she just left. Not a word. She was back when I woke up this morning. Sitting in the chair watching me" Hyatt gave Tara a sad smile "Is she talking at all? or am I just the lucky one getting the silent treatment?"
"I think it's just you. I heard her joking with Xander when I came up here" Tara was slow in saying.
"It's understandable. Who is their right mind would bring their ex into their girlfriends house without telling her" Hyatt stood and went to get a brush for her hair.
"Okay you were wrong shoulda told her" Tara said shortly "It's done, you messed up. Don't do it again. Now march down there and apologize to her"
"Everyone and their brother is down there. Well except the love birds" Hyatt rolled her eyes "I think I wanna do that with a bit more privacy factoring in"
"That's fine with me. We're heading to the Magic Box. Find real clothing and-" Tara paused "Well yeah, get a move on"
"Yes mother"
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Tara knocked on the guest room door before heading downstairs.
"Okay, your horny we get it" she called through the door "I'm sure you have things to do 'besides' each other, so lets rise and shine already"
"We're almost done!" Cordy nearly screamed back.
"Maybe she's some kinda sex demon" Jean said from behind Tara startling her.
"Are there such things as sex demons?" Tara said without thinking.
"Besides the normal Nymphete's? I dunno. But it's a thought" Jean shrugged.
"A thought your to young to be having" Tara eyed the child. It seemed that the shy little girl that had wanted to use her lap for a pillow had changed quite a bit in a short time. But she didn't realize, the experience they'd shared had changed her as well.
"I can feel it to. I'm not blind. There's something weird in me" Jean looked down at the floor "It doesn't feel evil. But evil rarely does. I just don't wanna hurt anyone"
"Oh Jean sweetie don't worry" Tara gathered Jean in her arms and moved them several feet away from the closed guest room door "No matter what, we'll never leave you. You belong here"
Jean looked at her worried "Do I?"
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Disclaimer: See Part 1
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"Purple" Star rolled her eyes.
"Blue" Jean crossed her arms.
"Purple" Star got louder.
"Blue" Jean also raised her voice.
"Quiet!" Buffy called from the lower level of the shop where the Scooby's were meeting.
"Are female Jerot demons purple or blue?" Jean called down staring Star in the eye.
"Both, depending on if they're breeding or not" Tara called back.
"See we're both right" Star nodded holding out a hand to shake.
Jean accepted it with a nod "Fair enough"
"Stop reading those demon texts!" Buffy yelled again "and get down here"
Star rushed to the edge, causing everyone to start towards her when her small body impacted the low rail "Can't we sit on the stairs?"
"No sweetie, we can't see you up there and we don't want you to fall" Tara said in a calm reasoning voice.
Star pouted but heading down the stairs.
"You to Jean" Tara called the other child when she didn't appear to follow.
"I'm reading something" Jean called back.
"Well bring it down here and read it if you must" Giles said with little patience in his voice.
Jean appeared frowning with a large book in her hands.
"She looks like the little girl in Harry Potter" Xander pointed out "She's doing some 'light reading' just like in the movie" he chuckled.
Everyone rolled their eyes.
Jean's frown got deeper.
"It was a compliment" Xander tried to reason "I was saying your intelligent" he turned to Jean "Really I was"
Silently Jean headed down the stairs. She settled herself on the bottom step and opened the book gently.
"Now where were we" Giles asked no one "Ah yes. Apparently this "Magic Studying" task force, or whatever you want to call it has been around for many years. It seems that people have been disappearing and reappearing later on worse for wear, not really knowing what happened to them, and muttering about "magicks being studied' and the such"
"How have the gotten away with it for so long?" Buffy looked to Tara and Hyatt "If it's so well documented shouldn't someone have caught them?"
"They wipe your memory" Tara stared off into nothing for long moments "I'm trying to remember what happened there. It's all screams and darkness now"
"Yeah it is" Madison agreed nodding slowly "I remember cages, needles, Drusilla's annoying voice"
"Drusilla's that insane vampire right? The one with 'the vision'?" Jean wondered.
"Yes now please be silent and do whatever it is your doing" Giles said rudely to the child.
"I don't think he likes you" Star whispered to the girl as she played with a love charm.
"I noticed" Jean whispered back.
"The other victims of this 'cause' have said the same. No real memories of it. Like some kind of nightmare. Most unhelpful really" Giles cleaned his glasses.
"Then we should look into spells that steal memories. Maybe we can find something to reverse this" Hyatt suggested standing to pace.
"I have a few in my books. But we should look at more. From what I remember they were for natural amnesia's only" Willow flipped through her notebook "They seem pretty simple. But I doubt they'll work"
"There's a few spell libraries I can check" Hyatt stopped pacing to consider for a moment.
"Can I come with you?" Tara looked from Buffy to Hyatt raising a brow. Neither had spoken to each other.
"No I don't think so. They're kinda exclusive about who they let in. I doubt a witch of your stature would we welcomed" Hyatt sighed "They don't know you"
"What do you mean exclusive?" Buffy spoke at Hyatt not looking up from her clenched fists on the table.
"They're people's family libraries. Natural witches spell books handed down from generations. Kind of a friends and family only deal" Hyatt didn't look at Buffy directly. Opting to stare into space.
Buffy made a gruff sound and nodded "Good idea"
"Want me to come with you?" Madison offered glaring at Buffy and smiling sweetly at Hyatt.
"No. Maybe you could look for Mycah? Or some of our old friends. See if they know anything about this, or some spells" Hyatt quickly declined.
"Good idea" Madison echoed Buffy.
"I seem to be having a few of those lately" Hyatt muttered.
"Well you shouldn't go alone. Who knows if those people are still hanging about" Cordy spoke up.
"Good idea" Giles muttered.
Xander rolled his eyes. Anya left the table.
"Can I go? I'd like to get outta here" Jean said from the stairs, avoid even a glance of Giles.
"Yeah. That'll work, they won't feel threatened by you" Hyatt winked at the girl "Much"
Jean smiled and giggled. She hurried up the stairs and set the book on the reshelf table and joined Hyatt infront of the door.
"I'll stay with Mama" Star hopped in Buffy's lap.
"Yeah. We'll go practice our butt kick'n moves right killer?" Buffy said standing and scooping the child in her arms.
Star shadowed boxed in her semi-horizontal position "We'll knock 'em dead, all pretend like"
Buffy chuckled and disappeared into the training room.
"What does that leave me to do?" Faith spoke for the first time.
"You can take Dawn back the Buffy's and keep her occupied. Xander and Anya will mind the shop and Tara and Willow will look for spells" Giles handed out assignments.
"Wow. Rejected in record time" Faith snapped "That's gotta be some kinda record"
"Join the club" Dawn muttered as she came from another part of the store "Maybe we can catch some 'good' afternoon movies" she rolled her eyes as they too headed for the door.
"Right" Faith brushed by Hyatt and Jean "Later"
"We'll go look for those old friends of yours" Cordy pulled Madison out behind her.
"Ready for the supreme boredom of spell research?" Hyatt teased Jean poking her in the nose.
"Anything beats being around 'him' right now" Jean pointed to Giles with a sad look.
Hyatt said nothing to the comment but held the door open.
Moments after the Exodus, Giles turned to Willow and Tara.
"Is there something wrong with Buffy and Hyatt? I thought they seemed a little tense?"
"Nope Giles, not a thing" Tara nodded seriously "It's just in your head"
Giles frowned "Imagine that"
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Willow flipped quickly through an old spell book "I really think there's something bothering Buffy"
"Madison is bothering Buffy" Tara said without thinking, or looking up from her spell text. When she'd realized what she said she prayed Willow would let it slid.
She of course didn't.
"What does Madison have to do with it?" Willow looked up at Tara, hoping to meet her eyes, but getting the top of her head instead.
"Just some stuff" Tara shrugged and flipped a few more pages hoping to look busy.
"Some 'We used to date and now Buffy's worried about it' kinda stuff" Willow guessed as she scooted closer to her soulmate.
"Mmm" Tara gave non-committal. She could feel Willow moving closer to her. As always her warm presence was having an immediate and most pleasurable effect.
"Why's Buffy worried?" Willow touched Tara's cheek gently stroking it. She traced a line from the edge of Tara's lips to her hairline, following that to her nape.
"I dunno. Maybe it's because Hyatt's the first girl she's ever- oh please don't stop doing that" Tara gushed almost purring when Willow began to caress her at the base of her neck.
"I wont" Willow assured wrapping her free arm around Tara's waist "Just tell me what I wanna know?"
Tara moaned helplessly "That's not fair" she whimpered pressing against Willow.
"Buffy's afraid of Madison is that it?" Willow breathed into Tara's ear making the other girl shiver.
"I doubt it. I just think she's intimidated by what Madison and Hyatt had once" Tara bowed her head, giving into her weakness of Willow-hand.
"They were dating then?" Willow slid her hand to Tara's thigh, fingering the denim seam on her pants.
"Uh-huh" Tara breathed "Seriously dating. From what Hyatt said she was really in love with her"
"And Buffy doesn't think she's over her?" Willow frowned but continued her light caress of her girlfriends leg.
"I think both Buffy and Mycah think there's something more than friendship between them now. But Hyatt's happy for her, now that she has C-C-c" Tara began to stutter when Willow's hand shot up to cup the apex between her legs.
"Cordelia?" Willow finished.
"Yesss" Tara hissed.
Willow removed her hand.
Tara made a pathetic sound.
"Later baby. This is practically public, and I'm far from an exhibitionist" Willow kissed Tara's hair and moved her chair away.
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"I can still hear you in my head" Jean spoke at what seemed a random moment of silence.
They'd been driving for a few minutes quietly.
"Left over from when I borrowed your power?" Hyatt glanced at the girl when she stopped for the infrequent light.
Jean sat stock still, staring out her window "Where's Bri?"
"Hiding in the walls as she always does" Hyatt made a left turn onto a residential road.
"Is she really a- you know?" Jean finally turned to face her.
Hyatt stared straight ahead "Yeah, until she's released she'll remain so"
"Will you let her go?" Jean reached over and grasped Hyatt's hand hoping she'd feel and know everything going on in her head.
"Your a nosy little girl" Hyatt remarked. She parked at the curb of a blue cottage like house.
"Just curious" Jean shrugged with a smile on her face.
"Curiosity killed the cat" Hyatt took her hand away and got out of the car.
"Satisfaction brought him back" Jean followed the older girl.
They were laughing as the walked through the front gate and up to the porch. Jean froze suddenly at the bottom of the stares and her eyes widened.
Fear shot through her and she wanted to run, but found her feet wouldn't obey and move.
"Jean what's wrong?" Hyatt touched the girls shoulder and was jolted back several feet. She collapsed onto the stairs as the front door opened and a robed figure stepped out.
Jean tried to scream but no sound left her throat. Then everything went black.
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Buffy spotted as Star once again tried a leaping back kick.
And for the 8th time, the little girl landed on her butt.
"I can't do it" Star whined sounding every inch the little girl that she was.
"You just have to try honey you'll get it" Buffy said patiently.
"Can we shadowbox now?" Star stood rubbing her sore backside and fighting off the urge to swear like Faith often did.
"Yeah. But I'm gonna watch your track this time. Make sure your not dropping that shoulder" Buffy teased.
"I don't drop my shoulder. I box perfectly" Star turned her back on the slayer purposefully. She knew Buffy would come after her.
Buffy knew that Star knew she was coming. She decided to try a new tactic.
Creeping up behind her with a smile on her face Buffy reached out her weaker left arm, and grabbed the little girl.
Star spun and sweep kicked Buffy's feet out from under her.
The slayer grasped her arm and pulled the girl down with her, tickling her when they hit the mat.
Tara could hear the squeals and giggles erupting from the training room, and moved to see what turned the grunts, groans, and occasional whines from earlier, into such spritely laughter. She smiled at what she found.
Star was sitting on Buffy's belly ticking everything her little arms could reach. Buffy was too busy slapping the little hands away to truly protect and one spot for long.
"Who's imperfect now!" Star squealed as the slayer once again tried to unseat her.
"Me! Me! Me!" Buffy gasped close to begging the child to stop "I give up. I gotta pee"
"Way over share Mama" Star said jumping off the older girl and standing proud with her hands on her hips.
Tara laughed at the beaten look on Buffy's face, and the proud look on Stars. As well as her comments.
"She cheated Tara. You saw that right? She went straight for big tickle spots" Buffy stood and pretended to walk away with an injury.
"Oh you big baby, I barely touched you. It was all in your mind" Star stuck out her tongue.
"You lost Buffy, face it. Star's tickle-game is stronger than yours" Tara smirked as Buffy moved past her to the door.
"She cheated. She pottied me!" Buffy argued. She playfully punched Tara's shoulder.
Tara had grown used to Buffy's playful tough girl attitude and remarked as she wouldn't have when she first met the slayer "Oh please. Your weakness is tickles. I could potty you"
"You wanna bet?" Buffy challenged playfully ducking and jabbing at Tara dancing around her and forcing her back into the room.
Tara merely raised her brows and drove two fingers into Buffy's jumpstarts.
"Hey" Buffy ran from the room heading straight for the bathroom "You got lucky that time!"
Star dropped to the mat laughing hard. Tara too slid down the wall to the floor.
"We beat up the slayer!" Star cheered from her back "We're bad, we're bad"
"Tara? Star? What's going on?" Giles entered the room "Why is Buffy talking to herself in the bathroom"
"Oh she lost a fight" Star nodded calmly sitting up.
"Oh" Giles walked from the backroom "I think they take pride in confusing me"
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Faith sat back on the couch bored off her ass.
Dawn had retired upstairs and unto the phone as soon as they'd arrived.
"Have you ever got the feeling that you wanted to go. But then get the feeling that you needed to stay?"
Faith leapt to her feet at the sound of the voice beside her.
"Mycah?" she took deep breaths hoping to calm her speeding heart.
"Sorry did I scare you?" Mycah smirked down at the reclining slayer.
Faith sent her a look that could melt rock "No. I usually jump like that when people start quoting old songs"
"It's not an old song. Something like one, but not it" Mycah sat beside her on the couch "You know you should really lock that door"
"It was locked" Faith cast a glance at the small figure that stood at the bottom of the stairs "You can go up, maybe she'll get off the phone"
Kole sent her a smile and bounded up the stairs calling Dawn's name.
"I think she likes you" Mycah chuckled watching the blur that was her child disappear above stairs.
"She's a sweet kid" Faith laid her head back and closed her eyes. Her sense were still on alert and every movement made caused her to tense up.
"Sorry about my entrance but there's some stuff I think Buffy and the gang should know" Mycah too laid her head back, taking a much needed rest.
"They aren't here. They sent me and the little terror that is Dawn here while they did all the important stuff" Faith grumbled. She started again as Mycah took her hand.
"Jealously. Isn't that how you ruined your chance to be one of them the first time?" Mycah hadn't opened her eyes to look at Faith, but had leaned her body closer.
"Shut up" Faith growled.
"I'll take that as a yes" Mycah brought their hands to her lips and kissed the soft skin "I know how you feel. Buffy and Hyatt are lucky they have each other. I know I'd kill to have a girl friend like Buffy"
"You can read my mind can't you?" Faith stared at the other girl in amazement.
"Yep. Your not fucked up at all. Just growing" Mycah answered the silent question Faith had been asking herself since she'd killed that first time, in that vamp infested alley "You made a mistake. You've paid for it. They might not fully trust you now, but look at what they've given you so far. You brought Dawn home. Buffy's little sister. The key to hell. She's under your protection. Buffy trusts you will the only blood family she's really got left. Faith I think that's progress"
Faith sat silently on that couch, holding onto Mycah's hand for dear life trying not to cry "I never thought of it that way"
"I know" Mycah sighed "There's something special about you Faith. It just hasn't been realized yet" Mycah flipped her hand over and began to trace the lines of her palms.
The gesture caused Faith to shiver slightly. The touch was feather light and elusive. She needed to think of something else. All this emotion was getting her worked up.
"Have you ever wanted something, only to have it taken right infront of your face?" Faith asked turning to Mycah again.
"Yeah" Mycah frowned "It's so not fun"
"I wanted Hyatt the first time I met her. A while ago in L.A. Then I come back here and find her again. With the other girl I wanted but couldn't have" Faith scoffed at herself and her rotten luck with women "I just can't get it right can I?"
"Like I said" Mycah chuckled humorlessly "I want Buffy"
"We so suck right now" Faith laughed as well shaking her head.
"I tried to break them up. It was stupid, and selfish" Mycah sighed.
"It also didn't work" Faith smirked.
"Shut up" Mycah nudged the slayer hard.
"Fuck you" Faith nudged her back.
"Oh look their bonding" Dawn said coming down the stairs with Kole on her hip.
"Should we be afraid?" Kole joked.
"Very afraid" Faith threw pillows at them.
In a flash the two broke apart and the pillow flew between them.
"Wow" Mycah and Faith breathed.
Dawn picked up the pillow and tossed it back. It hit Faith in her face.
"I guess you don't think fast" Dawn smirked.
Faith moved the chase Dawn when the first jolt hit.
"Earthquake!" Mycah grabbed her daughter as they all scrambled for the nearest doorway.
The shaking seemed to last forever though it was in truth only a few seconds long.
Knickknacks fell off the shelves, curtains fell, and Buffy's chest of weapons spilled out across the floor.
When the shaking ceased they all stood, well shaken and worried.
"Call the Magic Box" Faith directed as they all looked around them "I'll go see how bad off we are"
Dawn grabbed the phone and tossed it to the ground "Phones are out"
"That was a bad omen" Kole pouted "Can we just go? Please can we go?"
They all gave into her tearful voice, and filed out of the house and into Mycah's car.
None of them noticed the large hole that had appeared in Buffy's side yard, or the small scaly demons escaping it.
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Disclaimer: See Part 1
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Jean looked up from where'd she'd been thrown to the ground.
The place she stood moments earlier was covered in debris.
"That would've hurt" she mumbled to herself as she stood and brushed off her clothes.
"That is why I moved you" a gravelly voice came from behind her.
Jean spun quickly and adopted a fighting stance.
"Ah, ah. I'm not here to hurt you" the robed figure said raising it's arms.
"Jean, this is Clareth" Hyatt pushed herself up off the stairs "Clareth this is-"
"A very special child" the robed woman cut her off.
"That too" Hyatt climbed the stairs slowly. Her legs were shaking, and the world was still spinning slightly "Your steps and my head had a nice little meeting"
"Oren will see to your injuries. Come little one, before the aftershocks" Clareth waved Jean towards the house.
The little girl filed in after Hyatt.
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Buffy, Tara, Willow and Giles stood before the tiny T.V Anya kept hidden in the Magic Box.
"An Earthquake? I didn't feel anything" Willow turned to the slayer "Are you sure this is for us?"
"Yes. That and I sensed it. It was magick, and not of the White variety" Buffy's arms were crossed before her, she had a death grip on her elbows.
"There's been quite a few of those lately. I think there's something bad a brewin" Star hugged Buffy's legs.
"Yeah like something 'big' and bad a brewin" Buffy rested her hand on the top of Star's head.
"Did you guys feel that?" Cordelia asked as she walked through the door.
"No but we're hearing about it" Tara pointed to the little screen.
"Well we found a few people who might help us learn more" Madison entered behind Cordy followed by two girls none of the Scoobs had seen before.
"Did you feel that quake" Faith came bouncing in causing the four young women just inside the door step away "It was hella bad, tore up your house a bit. Broken shit everywhere" Faith spread her arms.
"Well not everywhere but there's alot of broken shit" Mycah amended coming in behind the slayer.
Dawn and Kole trailed behind her looking worried and shaken.
"Mycah?" one of the woman Madison brought squealed.
Mycah turned only to be grasped in a strong hug that nearly knocked her off her feet.
"Melissa?" Mycah tried to pull the other woman off herself.
"That's Hannah" the second woman corrected.
"Oh my god Hannah!" Mycah hugged the young woman to her and they both fell over.
"Now that's just cute" Willow smiled.
"Right" Faith rolled her eyes "So where's the rest of the gang?"
"Anya and Xander are riding around town seeing what was effected. Looking for any clue type things" Buffy crossed to the table "So Madison, this is Hannah and whom?"
"Max" the other woman crossed to the slayer and held out a friendly hand "Maxine Boston at your service"
Buffy accepted the hand politely. She noticed the girl had a good grip on her "and what exactly is your service?"
"Maxie here is an expert Swordsman. She comes from a family of Brelor demons" Madison plopped into the chair across from Buffy.
"Half Brelor demons. So your the slayer? I expected you to be....taller" Max released Buffy's hand when she felt the grip tighten slightly.
"Your not much bigger" Buffy grumbled.
"Sore spot?" Max asked politely.
"Got it in one" Buffy settled back into the chair.
"Has anyone heard from Jean and-" Dawn spoke up hugging herself in the corner.
"No" Tara didn't allow the girl to finish the sentence.
She received confused gazes all around.
"Hannah let Mycah up off the floor" Max commanded without turning to face the two giggling forms.
"Party pooper" Hanna mumbled pulling herself as well as Mycah up.
"We're here on business" Max reminded her.
"Business. Now let's get to it" Buffy stretched out her fingers as everyone gathered around the table.
"This thing is big" Max began.
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Jean wandered through the maze of stacked and ordered books. She had no clue what she was looking for, or if she was even looking. She just knew she was going somewhere in the stacks.
"Don't get lost Jean. It'll take 'years' to find you!" Hyatt called from the couch she rested on.
She was surrounded by codices of memory loss, and gain spells. As well as diaries of those captured and released or escaped, of the so called 'magick studiers'.
"Ok" Jean called back taking another turn in the stacks. Each step she took she felt closer to something.
Clareth had left the two alone in the library. Silently she re-entered from a hidden door in one of the farthest stacks. Stealthily she tracked all of Jean's movements. Blending into shadow's and walking through the books themselves, she waited.
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"Amanda? Do I even wanna 'know' what your staring at?" a slight blonde rolled her eyes at her sometimes annoying best friend.
"I spy with my little eye something delicious and red" Amanda narrowed her gaze on the lithe redhead across the street.
The young redhead stood before a store called the 'Magic Box'. She seemed to be pacing and talking to herself.
Amanda watched her for several moments.
The redhead stopped pacing and looked across the not so busy street, and directly at her. She hurried back into the store.
"I think we need to do a little Magic shopping" Amanda grabbed her taller friend and rushed across the street.
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"That was quick" Buffy barely looked up as Willow came back into the shop.
"Just needed a little air" Willow smiled and went straight to the steps the led to the upper part of the store "I just thought of something I'll be right back"
Buffy and Tara exchanged a look.
"Okay" they said in unison.
Madison shook her head. Cordelia hung up the phone.
"I just talked to Angel to ask if he knew anything about this vampire rising Giles is in such a pickle about. Well that and to tell him how 'stupid' it was to send me away alone" she said returning to the table "He says he's never heard of them, but he's asking Lorne when he see's him later"
"Lorne?" Buffy raised her brows.
"Demon nightclub owner" Cordy explained "Long story, you don't wanna know"
"Okay" Buffy nodded "So Max, is this thing gonna happed anytime soon?"
"Well with these Earthquakes, and freak rain storms? I'd say those are the first signs of hell rising, if you'll excuse the pun" Max pushed her hair out of her face. They'd been talking for hours, yet everything seemed for nothing "this rising is happening. We can try and prevent it, or kill them as they come"
"I'm all for the preventing" Xander spoke coming in "Seeing as how right now we have a problem"
"What kind of problem?" Buffy stood and crossed to her Xander shaped friend.
"The little green and scaly kinda trouble" Xander amended taking Buffy's elbows.
"Except they don't stay small. The eat domesticated animals and get bigger til they can devour whole humans" Anya happily informed everyone "They devour entire populations"
"Small scaly and kinda cute until they eat your puppy kinda trouble?" Max frowned.
"Yeah, how'd you know? And uh who are you?" Xander stared over Buffy's shoulder.
"I'm Max, and I've heard of them before. Vopus demons" Max flipped through one of the many text piled on the small table.
"Look like your average everyday gremlin, and they multiply in water!" a new voice broke in.
"God Amanda you just sound 'so' happy saying that" a second voice came.
"Gremlin? Like Gizmo kinda gremlin?" Tara's eyes jumped from Max to the newcomers and back again.
"Not as cute as Gizmo, but yeah" Max made a face "What are you guys doing here?"
"Following Amanda's nose" the second girl rolled her eyes "You got any Yarrow? Fresh not dried"
"Fifth case on the left, third row down" Anya hurried to her register ready to take money.
"Thanks" the second girl disappeared.
"Oh" Cordelia lifted a finger for attention "Did I mention Angel's coming....here?"
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Jean sifted through the book carefully.
"This things chock full of prophecies" she whispered to herself.
"Found what your looking for child?" Clareth's gravelly voice startled the child.
"I think so" Jean furrowed her small brow "I don't feel like I'm searching anymore"
"Then it is yours" Clareth pressed the clutched book into Jean's chest "Maybe it will help you find what you are looking for. No?"
"Am I looking for something?" Jean looked down at the book solemnly.
"Soon" Clareth smiled and vanished through the stacks.
"Jean? Jeanie? Come on babe I found what I was looking for!" Hyatt's voice carried to Jean's ears "Jeanie?"
"I'm right here!" Jean called back looking around, Hyatt's voice seemed to be coming from everywhere "But where are you?"
"I'm not right there" Hyatt chuckled.
"Oh just keep talking and I'll follow your voice" Jean looked around and at the book she carried.
"Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeannnnniiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" Hyatt drug out the name.
"Funny" Jean rolled her eyes and turned the first corner in the stacks....
And ran directly into Hyatt's back.
"Well I found you" Jean rubbed her forehead "Your bony"
Hyatt rubbed her sore shoulder blade "Am not. Let's go"
"Okay" Jean adjusted the heavy book in her arms.
"Clareth give you that?" Hyatt asked noticing the possession.
"How'd you know it was Clareth" Jean tossed her curls out of her eyes.
"Oren would've told me" Hyatt held the door open "Hyatt dearie, I gave the little one a book" she mimicked the older witches crackly voice.
"Your strange" Jean laughed. Stepping out of the door she tripped over a small scampering body.
Hyatt caught her before she hit the ground and together they watched the scaly little demon.
Sensing the power in the two, the demon stopped and stared before tossing the bird and disappearing into the nearby bushes.
"Clareth!"
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Disclaimer: See Part 1
This part serves to do nothing but to confuse the 'HELL' out of everyone who reads it. But trust me, you need this part to understand the next one.
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"IT'S NOT FUNNY! HE THREW POOP IN MY HAIR!" Jean's voice carried completely through the Magick Box, cutting off all conversation.
"Well actually..." Hyatt chuckled pushing her way in backwards.
"It's not funny, it smells bad and I think I'm gonna puke" Jean entered behind her lugging the other end of a small covered cage.
The putrid odor entered behind them, and screeching was hear from beneath the towel.
"Uh. Hi" Anya waved from her spot behind the counter "What's the stinky thing your bringing into my store?"
"Vopus demon" Jean rolled her eyes and released the cage, leaving the entire weight for Hyatt.
"Hey" Hyatt barely caught the extra weight and immediately set it down "Some warning would've been nice"
"So would it have been in the car" Jean stomped her foot "Before he threw his poop in my hair!"
"There's more of it on my windshield than your hair" Hyatt shrugged.
"I want it out now!" Jean whined.
Hyatt led her off to the bathroom.
"She looks different" Hannah spoke up. She'd been quiet and reserved since her initial entrance. Sobering even more when Amanda and her friend had entered.
"You noticed that too" Max whispered as she stroked the other girls hair.
Hanna closed her eyes and leaned into the touch.
Buffy looked on sadly. She missed touching Hyatt like that.
Willow and Tara had been doing the same gesture off and on all day, reminding the slayer of what she could have, but was missing due to her own restriction.
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Tara stood in the bathroom door, watching as Hyatt rinsed the feces and hand soap from Jean's hair.
"Are you sure this won't dry my hair out?" Jean asked for the fourth time.
"She won't mess up your 'do' Jean" Tara chuckled.
"How am 'I' supposed to know that?" Jean turned her head and got an earful of water.
"Now that's gotta be uncomfortable" Hyatt turned her head the other way and tried unsuccessfully to drain her ear.
Finally all the handsoap was gone.
"Why did you catch a demon and bring it with you?" Tara crossed her arms and cornered the two in the bathroom.
"Vopus demons become like pets once their caught. Since they grasp the human languages, it's well... I'd say it can developmentally match a 6 year old child" Hyatt explained as she dried Jean's hair with paper towels.
Jean frowned the whole time "And they throw poop"
"I noticed. That thing smells. Anya's threatening to sue" Tara smirked.
"Like there's any customers in here to disturb?" Hyatt rolled her eyes at Tara's lounging reflection in the mirror.
Jean flipped her head up tossed her hair and splashing them both. Her dark brown locks hung curly and damp just past her shoulders.
"Thanks for the freak shower Jeanie" Hyatt combed her fingers through the little girls hair.
"There's actually a 'real' customer in here. A girl came in with that weird Amanda chick. Went looking for Yarrow" Tara racked her brain "Can't remember what Yarrow is for though"
"Healing spells" Jean and Hyatt spoke in unison.
The filed out of the bathroom and into the main room.
"Xander! Honey! Jean has your after shower hair!" Anya squealed excitedly pointing "Only she's cuter than you!"
Jean smiled at Xander's mock hurt look.
"You're cuter than me. I feel so ugly now" Xander pouted and scooted closer to Willow who patted his head affectionately.
"Your not ugly Xander" Jean moved to him and gave him a slightly damp hug "Your just no so cute anymore"
"Thanks" Xander gave her a nuggie "I think"
"Is that your little sister?" Max waved to Hyatt but directed the question to Xander.
"Little sister?" Xander turned Jean bodily to face him "No. She's..." he trailed off in thought.
Jean's smile fell. She didn't know what she was to these people either.
"She's my daughter" Xander turned to Max and brought Jean cheek to cheek "don't you see the daddy/daughter resemblance?" he joked.
"You know you could actually pass that off" Faith frowned staring at the two together.
No one had seen their two faces that close before.
The resemblance was indeed remarkable.
Screeching from the cage startled them all.
"I don't think the Poop Bomber likes being cooped up" Jean narrowed her eyes at the moving little square on the floor.
Hyatt whipped the covering off the cage revealing the scaly little demon.
"Your not gonna let that thing out are you?" Buffy screwed up her face "I mean it throws poop"
"Only at Jean" Hyatt smirked.
"Hey"
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Willow came to the edge of the upper landing of the store when she heard the continued screeching noises.
"What's going on?" Willow leaned over the rail and stared down at the accumulated group.
"Hyatt caught a demon" Buffy turned her nose up at the creature "A poop throwing demon"
"Only at Jean" Xander added.
Jean pushed away from him punching his shoulder.
"I even get abused by the cute ones" Xander remarked feigning pain "I now know my place in the world"
"Hey do you have any books on anti-... hello" Amanda said seeing Willow as she walked from the store shelves.
"Amanda?" Hyatt's surprise was clear on her face. She'd seen Hannah and Max, but she didn't know Amanda was there as well.
She turned to Madison and pointed accusingly "You went to a 'Girl Bar' didn't you?"
Madison's eyes widened "No. Max and Hannah were at home. Amanda wandered in without my help"
"Amanda what 'are' you doing here anyway?" Max asked pointedly.
"She was hoping to get into Willow's pants" Jean remarked. She'd move to stand near the girl during the bouncing conversation.
"What?" came the harmonized response. All but Hannah stared at Amanda.
Anya didn't see a problem.
"Well atleast she has taste"
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Willow blushed to the color of her hair. She turned her gaze away from her friends.
She focused on the demon in the cage.
The little creature in turn studied her. Then went back to trying to release the simple lock keeping him trapped.
"Uh Hyatt?" Willow tried to get the girls attention.
The noise level in the room rose, it was an explosion of sound, everyone's voices speaking at once. Not a scrutable word could be heard.
Tara moved to go above stairs to her soulmate, when Willow's voice rose above all the others.
"STOP NOW!"
Everything in the room ceased.
Including the bright little demon with a handful of it's own feces.
Everyone looked up at Willow.
Willow turned Hyatt's attention to the now free, Vopus demon.
In it's 4 fingered hand, were small yellow lumps.
He was obviously aiming for Buffy.
"Do it, and I'll sew your ass shut I swear" Hyatt spoke in a low voice.
He immediately tossed it back into the cage.
"Amazingly smart for such an evil little thing" Xander tilted his head and eyed the little green creature.
"Eww" Buffy moved to Hyatt and held onto her shoulders "Your not planning on keeping that thing right?"
"I like him" Star wiggled her finger's at the humming little demon "But he smells icky"
"Yes he does" Anya agreed "Take that shit out" she pointed to the door.
The demon turned and dragged the cage out of the shop. He immediately reappeared, hopping from foot to foot.
"What's it doing now?" Buffy backed Hyatt up as she moved them both back towards the table.
"Waiting" Hyatt allowed herself to be led backwards.
"For instructions"
Buffy started. She hadn't seen Willow move down next to her.
Tara held firmly to the other witches hand. She too eyed the little beast.
"He'll do whatever you say?" Faith asked once they'd all reached the table.
Buffy pulled Hyatt into her lap, and Tara sat between Willow's legs.
"Loyal as a puppy" Hyatt nodded.
"Can it talk?" Hannah spoke the clear minded thought "because if it can perhaps it can tell us why it's here"
"Can you speak little one?" Star crouched before it, rubbing her finger's over the smooth scales on it's face.
"Y-yes" the gravelly little voice sounded much like that of an old man.
"Mama it talks!" Star hopped up and down clapping.
"That's nice now move away from it" Buffy waved the little girl over to her.
"You don't have any more-..on my a Vopus demon" the sole customer in the store made her re-entrance.
"Uh I forgot I had a customer" Anya blinked in confusion.
Her sudden appearance had brought both slayers to their feet. There was definitely something weird there.
The little demon scampered away from the woman, hiding behind Xander's legs and peeking through.
Buffy's head turned and Willow and Tara both came to their feet at Hyatt's indrawn breath.
"You" the woman said pointing to Hyatt. She turned her gaze to Mycah, then to Willow, Tara, Faith, and Buffy "All of you"
"All of them what?" Xander rose, he didn't know what exactly was going on, but it felt wrong.
"I think you should go now. But make purchases first" Anya spoke cheerily into the eerily quiet room.
"No. I think she should just leave" Hannah moved towards the stranger.
Amanda placed a protective arm about the woman and ushered her to the door.
"This isn't a good time.."
"There never will be a good time" the woman interrupted.
"Let's just go" Amanda shoved her roughly out the door, before disappearing behind her companion she turned to the group "I'll call you"
The silence was deafening.
"Does anyone know what that was about?" Cordelia tried to hide the trembling in her body.
"There was power there" Willow sensed the room around her. Taking Tara's hand they went for a 'deeper' look.
"There's 'ancient' power there" the blonde Wiccan corrected.
"Um, Xander..there's something wrong with your....kid" Max held Jean as she stood stiff and unmoving.
By the looks of her face she was terrified.
"It's like the lights are on, but there's no one home"
Jean's body relaxed suddenly. She let out a calm breath, and slipped completely out of consciousness.
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Disclaimer: See Part 1
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"It's still a natural sleep" Tara checked Jean for the fourth time since they left the Magic Box.
"So that's a good thing right?" Buffy smoothed the unruly brown locks from the child's face.
Tara could tell Buffy was extremely worried "She's sleeping as far as the unconsciousness is concerned. If she's in pain, or if there's anything wrong internally, which I doubt, that remains to be seen"
"Can't your magic tell that?" Buffy looked from the child to the Wiccan.
"I-" Tara backed away "I'm not trained to heal. The spell I'm using is just a basic, revealing spell with a few changed words. Everything's coming up as being fine so far. Buffy let's try not to worry" she placed a gentle hand on the slayer's shoulder.
"I just... she's helpless Tara. We should be able to do more" Buffy sighed deeply "I don't like feeling this way"
"Like there's nothing you can beat to make it better" Tara urged Buffy away from the couch, and Jean's sleeping body.
Anya was quick to take the slayer's place at the child's side.
"I need to work off some steam." Buffy ran impatient hands through her hair "I don't know what's up with that strange girl that was in the Magic Box, but she left me kinda-"
"On edge?" Faith came around the corner from the kitchen "I gotta need to slay, if you want company"
"Sure, we'll be back later" Buffy grabbed her keys. She flung open the door and nearly ran into Hyatt.
"Whoa slow down" Hyatt caught Buffy's upper arms to keep them from colliding.
"Where did you go? You just disappeared earlier" Faith asked squeezing past them both.
"Well, when the Quake hit, we didn't know if everyone was okay" Hyatt held up several small bags "Cell phones, just incase?"
Buffy and Faith blinked "Oh" came their harmonic response.
"Could you hold off leaving for a few? Get these things organized?" Hyatt looked back and forth between the two.
"I guess" Faith turned back into the house.
Buffy and Hyatt eyed each other for a few moments before Buffy turned and re-entered.
Sighing, Hyatt followed.
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"So we all get one of these, and if anything happens, we call?" Anya waved the phone around as she spoke. She still had a soothing hand on Jean's head.
"Yeah. Everyone's number will be programmed into each phone. You find something, you call everyone. Something happens, you call...someone" Hyatt sat on the floor next to Buffy.
It was the closest anyone had seen the two to each other in the last few days.
"Okay, everyone, including Dawn has their own phone. The other kids, will always be with someone" Tara accumulated all the phone numbers and began formulating lists.
"Why did we think of this sooner?" Willow sat behind Tara with her legs stretched out on either side of the blonde Wiccan's body.
"Didn't have the means I guess" Buffy shrugged.
"Can I call my friends with this?" Dawn bounced in place.
"You have free nights and weekends" Hyatt rolled her eyes "Otherwise, keep it to the present company"
Dawn sighed and half frown. She was happy they'd gotten her a phone period.
Tara finished compiling and copying all the numbers onto several lists "Here's everyone's numbers, program them into your phone. It's best if we all keep the same order on all of them. If worse comes to worse and you have to use someone else's phone. It's good to know the order"
"Why does Buffy get to be number 1!?" Dawn grouched "I'm the last one!"
"That's because your the least important" Star informed her from her perch on Xander's lap.
Dawn growled and flinched towards the little girl.
Star stuck out her tongue.
"Star behave" Tara gave the child a look.
Star shrugged and snuggled into Xander.
"I'm done, on with the slay for me" Faith stood and slid the phone into her pocket.
"What? Hey, Faith! Wait for me!" Buffy grabbed the younger slayers arm "I only have like half of mine in"
"Well I'm done" Faith shook Buffy off and headed for the door.
"Faith just wait for her. It won't kill you" Mycah tossed Buffy her phone "Here, mines done"
Buffy caught it easily and tossed Mycah her phone "Thanks I'll return it later"
Faith opened the door and hopped back "Uh Hyatt your little green friend is out here"
The little demon ran inside between Buffy's legs. It stopped abruptly at Hyatt's side.
"You leave Orangi" it said "Orangi find you tough"
"Orangi?" Star's eyes widened "Your a girl!"
"Yes, Orangi female" the little demon clapped.
"That thing is so not staying in my house" Buffy said flatly as she held onto Faith's arm keeping the other slayer from leaving without her.
"Aww but Buffy. It can be housebroken" Willow needled.
"Ugh" Buffy grunted as Faith tugged "We'll talk about this later"
Both slayers disappeared into the night.
Willow turned to Hyatt "They 'can' be house broken right?"
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Tara sat in the kitchen, and for the first time in a while. She was bored off her ass.
"We need to do something besides sit here and wait" Tara stretched her fingers across the table.
"Well the Jeanmeister is still sleepin'. Who's up for silly games?" Xander slumped into the seat across from Tara.
"I am. Anything to get rid of this boredom thing" Anya took a chair where she'd have a clear view of the sleeping child.
Dawn had long since disappeared upstairs, no doubt yacking on her new cell phone. Star was asleep in Willow's lap.
"I'll put her upstairs with Dawn" Willow carefully stood and headed upstairs.
"And I'll put the mighty munchkin down" Mycah scooped up a drooping Kole and followed.
"Ah, so now what to play?" Xander tapped his fingers.
Silence reigned.
"I think the good idea people are slaying, or upstairs being responsible for a few minutes" Hyatt sighed and nudged Xander "Truth or Dare?"
"Oh no. I always get the freaky 'lick a window or disgusting things' Dare. Spin the Bottle?" Xander spoke before thinking "Oh yeah the whole 'don't kiss guys' thing most of you have would make that a bit awkward"
"That and the fact that I wouldn't kiss you if you were a last man on earth" Tara said happily "I meant that in a completely "Anya would kill me' way" she said to lighten the blow.
Xander nodded, shooting a glance at his demon girl-friend.
"How about "I Never"?" Anya shrugged looking over at Jean.
"That's usually a girls night game. Xander's used to women, but I don't think he's 'that' in touch with his feminine side" Mycah remarked returning with Willow a few steps behind her.
"Kids asleep?" Xander scooted over so that they'd all fit at the table.
"Out like pretty little Christmas lights, that blink and get on your nerves 'cause the color's clash and give you a ....wow I kinda went off there a bit" Willow blushed as the sat next to Tara.
The two Wiccan's were sitting so closely, a few inches more and they'd be in each other's laps.
"Just a little" Tara leaned in and kissed Willow's cheek.
"You guys are so cute sometimes" Anya smiled at them "With all the kissy and touchy stuff you do. The sex must be amazing"
"She must embarrass you in public 'alot' Xander" Mycah rolled her eyes.
Hyatt nudged her for her rudeness.
"Oh the stories I could tell you" Xander muttered smiling sweetly at Anya.
"That's it! Most embarrassing stories!" Hyatt snapped her fingers.
"Yeah" Tara grinned "And we have to rate them on the "Laugh my Ass Off" Scale. 10 means the most laughable and embarrassing, and a 1 is Wow your boring" Tara punctuated her last words by dialoging her fingers.
"That'll work" Anya gave a single nod "I'm thirsty, anyone else?"
"Yeah"
"Definitely"
"Sounds good"
"I'll help you out"
Anya and Tara went to the kitchen to fix the drinks.
"So who'll go first" Xander rubbed his hands together.
"Well since your so anxious, 'you' go first Xander" Willow smirked at him.
Xander immediately stopped smiling "Come on have a heart. I'm the only guy"
"Even more reason to torture you" Hyatt stuck out her tongue.
Out of nowhere Orangi leapt to the back of Xander's chair.
"Orangi think silly man must be treat special" Orangi patted Xander's head "He very good man"
"See even the little demon thingy's on my side" Xander thumbed over his shoulder "You should listen to him"
"It's a she" Willow and Hyatt said in unison.
"Oh" Xander turned to Orangi "Sorry. But thanks for the popular vote"
"Orangi like you" Orangi hopped from the chair and disappeared behind the couch Jean rested on.
"That's a funny little thing" Anya set down drinks and took her seat.
"I never really thought about a demon 'pet' before" Tara agreed "and I never thought that one would be that...polite"
"Never underestimate the power of cute little demon pets" Xander instructed taking a sip.
"We won't" the woman chorused.
"Okay your embarrassing story Xander?" Willow reminded him.
"Okay okay." Xander took a deep breath "At my 6th birthday there was this clown"
"Alright" Tara held up a hand "I give it a 1 at the first sentence only"
"Tara" Willow laughed.
"Okay a 2" Tara smirked.
"He hasn't got the part where he wets his pants in front of everyone yet" Anya pouted.
"I take that back" Tara teased "On with the story"
"Gee" Xander rolled his eyes "Thanks"
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Faith twirled the stake in her hand. It was particularly dead. She was far beyond being bored.
"Hey B. I'm seriously thinking of being evil again right now. Just so I'd have someone to fight" she joked.
Buffy glanced back at her "You too huh? I'll be the bad guy this time. That way you can stab me"
"Did I mention I've forgiven you for that?" Faith teased spinning in a circle "See I turn my back to you"
"Wow, we are so pathetically bored" Buffy shook her head "Whatever happened to those good old days when Vamps were rampant and quite stupid?"
"And unorganized, and 'so' not trying to take over the world?" Faith sighed "I miss those good ole days"
Buffy chuckled and froze in her tracks "You feel that?"
Faith tensed as she too became aware "Magic"
"Old Magic" Buffy clarified.
Stealthily the crept around the crypts until they found the magic they'd been sensing.
A dark haired girl, not much older than Faith, stood before glowing runes on the ground. She walked around and between them, chanting and tossing herbs and measured intervals.
"What's she saying?" Faith whispered.
"I dunno" Buffy frowned "She's speaking Babylonian or something" the older slayer shrugged.
"Should we stop her?" Faith shifted from foot to foot wanting to 'do' something.
"Not yet. She might be on our side. I feels like magic. But not evil magic" Buffy placed a staying hand on Faith's shoulder.
"Not yet" Faith muttered.
Another woman appeared. She strode purposefully over to the first.
This woman was dark, shadow's swathed around her, hiding and revealing everything but definite features.
She smelled of death.
"Now 'that's' a vampire" Faith said jerking away from Buffy. She immediately dashed from behind the foliage they'd been hiding behind.
"Now you can attack" Buffy said needlessly. She followed Faith. She was glad she'd stayed behind when several more vamps appeared.
"She's a fucking Master B!" Faith screamed as she took down 3 in succession.
The fourth knocked her back.
Faith dropped her stake and immediately pulled out a knife.
"Seodene', cleaire wu opinati" the casting woman shouted out.
Buffy and Faith were thrown back up some unseen force.
Faith once again dropped her weapon as she flew back several feet.
Buffy managed to keep hers, though she landed against a gravestone.
Faith landed beside her afore lost stake.
"Now I'm REALLY pissed OFF!" Faith kicked to her feet just as one of the older vamps made it to her. It knocked her back to her previous horizontal position, and tried to pin her. Faith got both feet between them and threw it off.
The vampire threw straight up and back, landing impaled by a tree branch. It turned to dust and the other vamps and assorted minions turned to stare at them.
"Slayers?" the darkest woman spoke. Her voice resonated throughout the assembled group "But there can only be one?"
"She might be a Hepate" the casting woman muttered.
"It doesn't matter" the Master Vampire growled "Kill them both"
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"Okay okay" Tara said between gasping laughter "I take it back. Xander your 6th birthday story has been upped to a 5 now that Anya's told her cheesy one"
"Aha, your cheesier than me!" Xander goaded his significant other.
"Oh shut up" Anya crossed her arms and pouted "I wanna hear Tara's 10 story since she's crapping on ours"
Tara continued to giggle "Okay. Here's one I haven't even told Willow yet"
"There's one you 'haven't' told me" the red headed Wiccan didn't know whether to be hurt or excited "Must be bad"
"It is" Tara assured her "I was at Band Camp this one summer. The only summer I went. And there was this girl there that I had a crush on. Well this particular summer, they decided to try something a bit newer with the band. The divided us into groups. We had musicians, and then we had singers. We'd play showtunes, oldies but goodies, and they'd sing along" she took a breath and sipped her drink.
"Well?" Anya said impatiently.
"I'm getting there" Tara chided "Just so happens that this girl, we'll call her Jenna, ended up being one of the singers in our little troupe"
"Oh, this is gonna be good and embarrassing" Mycah muttered.
"Yep it is" Tara agreed "Now hush and let me finish. During one of our girls nights, kinda like this one, I was dared to tell who I had a crush on"
Willow's eyes widened, Hyatt covered her eyes, Anya, Xander and Mycah sat up in their seats.
"I refused to tell" Tara said anti-climatically.
"Aww come on" Anya slapped the table.
"Shut up Anya" Hyatt nudged the ex-demon "she said it's embarrassing she's gotta get there sometime"
"They were mad" Tara continued as though Anya hadn't spoken "and later on in the session, Jenna asked me to tell her who I liked, said she'd keep it a secret" Tara sighed at the memory. She'd been so shy and scared back then. She almost hadn't told the girl, later on she wished she hadn't "So I told her. It was her I had a crush on. She didn't say anything, just kinda laughed it off. I dismissed it as a 'she doesn't like me 'cause I'm shy' deal. Well our End of Session Recital came up. She was the second singer. And in her song, she changed the words around, told 'everyone' that 'you know who' had the biggest crush on her and 'isn't she a freak'. Luckily only the girls in our troupe knew what it meant, all 15 girls in our troupe. They didn't speak to me directly for the rest of the summer"
"I give it a 10, wow I'd of eviscerated them all" Anya blinked.
"That really sucks Tara" Mycah sat stunned "How old were you?"
"I was 13" Tara nodded. She was shaking slightly. It wasn't exactly a happy memory. She felt her love's hand draw a heart on the back on her head, then began finger combing her hair. The shaking dwindled down until it stopped completely.
"I have a funny one. It's also about band camp. It has a flute in it" Willow said cheerily.
"Did you play the flute Tara?" Anya leaned close over the table.
"No, I played the clarinet" Tara smirked.
"Same diff" Anya muttered.
"Okay my turn here. Up with the listening down with the running of the mouths" Willow snapped her fingers.
"Get on with it then" Hyatt faked an attitude shake with her head,
"Have you ever seen American Pie?"
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Buffy back flipped over the vamps head.
As she came down, one stepped into her path and she crushed it's head with from momentum of her booted foot.
"Ew" Faith remarked between stakings.
Buffy looked down and noticed some gray matter on her foot, too the vamp the shudder with death on the ground. She kicked up a stake she'd dropped earlier. It landed point down on the heart of the suffering beast and turned him into dust.
The gray matter remained.
Buffy kicked her vamp before her with the dirty boot. Took care of the gray matter.
Pissed off the vamp.
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"What was the flute girls name again?" Willow asked though she knew the answer.
"Michelle Flaherty" Mycah offered helpfully "I love that movie. That Michelle girl was hot"
"Well a few assholes, I mean, people from Sunnydale High thought I looked like her"
"You do" Hyatt swirled a finger in her drink.
"Shut up" Willow pouted "They called me Michelle for about a semester. You remember that 'oh so forgettable' line about "this one time a band camp I stuck my flute-"
"Up my Pussy!" Anya finished loudly "I love that line"
"You would" Tara muttered giggling.
"Well one day this one guy, had the audacity to ask me if I've ever stuck a flute up my pussy" Willow said not meeting anyone's eyes.
"What did you tell him?" Hyatt could barely hold back a laugh.
"I told him no. That I preferred all my flute in my ass" Willow bite her lip to keep from laughing herself.
Tara slid down in her seat as she laughed herself breathless. Mycah, Hyatt and Anya hadn't fared much better. As it was Anya was on the floor.
Xander sat dumbfounded.
"So that's where that rumor came from"
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"Considering how many vamps were there" Faith twirled her stake once again as the slayers headed home "that was wholly unfulfilling"
"Maybe we need something more than fighting tonight?" Buffy shrugged, she tried not to noticed her thighs rubbing together as she walked. She hoped Faith didn't notice either.
"Yeah I'm still on edge to B" Faith frowned and slowed to match Buffy's walk "Lucky thing you got a girl friend to take care of that for you"
Buffy froze for a second "I do don't I?"
"Took you long enough realize it" Faith rolled her eyes.
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They'd quieted down. Each taking deep breaths, hoping to calm themselves.
They met each other's eyes and broke into laughter immediately.
Willow knocked her head against the table repeatedly.
The vibrations from it knocked Hyatt's drink into her lap.
She squealed as the cold soda seeped into her pants.
"Oh my goddess! I'm sorry" Willow laughed trying to catch her breath.
"It's okay. I have a good embarrassing story" Hyatt was picking her pants away from her legs.
"Okay give" Xander nodded at her.
"This one time. At Buffy's house. Willow laughed so hard she spilled soda in my lap. So I ripped off my pants and threw them at her!" Hyatt proceeded to do just that.
Willow didn't have time to duck and the pants landed squarely on her head.
Tara, Anya and Mycah howled, Xander peeked under the table.
Tara smacked him on his head and her immediate popped back up.
"Those were my favorite sweat pants too" Hyatt managed to pout and laugh at the same time.
"Well alteast they soaked up all the liquid in your chair" Mycah pointed out.
The chair was indeed dry.
They all managed to calm down once again.
"Willow gets a 7, I took a point for the soda incident" Hyatt teased.
"Well you get a 3, cuz you don't seem the least bit embarrassed" Willow countered.
"Hey guys, whatcha up to?" Faith asked entering seconds before Buffy.
The older slayer entered slowly. The first thing her eyes fell on was her girl friend clothed in nothing but a sweatshirt that reached her upper thighs. She crossed to the table and lifted Hyatt from her chair.
Hyatt balanced herself on Buffy's strong shoulders.
"Buffy are you okay?" she ran her fingers through Buffy's tangled locks.
The slayer calmly sat in Hyatt's vacated chair and pulled the girl from the table and directly into her lap "I am now"
Buffy embraced Hyatt. Shifting her legs until the girl straddled her she began to nip and lick at her neck.
Hyatt closed her eyes, doing her best not to moan. Turning her head in she met Buffy's lips head on.
"God get a room" Anya frowned and looked at Xander "You never openly grope me like those two are"
"Yeah and that's a good thing" Willow assured her.
"They're doing it and you don't seem to mind" Anya pouted.
"It's Buffy's house" Tara pointed out.
Buffy pulled away from Hyatt's lips "She said get a room"
Hyatt was too dazed to answer.
"Sounds good to me" Tara grabbed Willow's hand and the two disappeared up the stairs.
Buffy followed suit, carrying the still dazed Hyatt.
"We are 'so' not getting any sleep tonight" Faith sighed dropping into a chair.
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Disclaimer: See Part 1
Now this is pure smut (right like I've never written smut before)
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Willow and Tara made it to their door just as Buffy's slammed shut.
"Think they're in a hurry?" Willow chuckled.
"Think we're not?" Tara pulled the redhead into the room shutting their door with a decisive 'click'.
Willow was on her in a second.
Ravenously she licked and nipped at the blondes lips and neck. Trailing soft wet kisses between the two, while her hands explored her back.
Tara melted into Willow at the first nip from her teeth. Molding their bodies together she allowed the redhead to take what she wanted.
Willow was prepared to take whatever Tara was willing to give.
Dancing backwards towards the bed Tara was surprised when the sensitive backs of her knee's hit the edge and she toppled over, Willow landing on top of her, bracing herself slightly above Tara's prone form running hungry eyes over her body taking it in all it's beauty and memorizing each swell and crevice.
"You're so beautiful" Willow whispered before bending to kiss the soft pale skin reverently.
"You make me beautiful" Tara whispered back.
Willow captured her lips and long sweet kiss reducing Tara to nothing more than a moaning puddle of willing wiccan woman.
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Buffy sat Hyatt down just inside the door, surprised when she was pushed away.
"What? Don't you want this too?" she tried to keep the nervousness out of her voice as she took in the shaking form before her. She couldn't tell if Hyatt were mad as hell at her, or just aroused to the point where the look was one of rampant hunger.
"Do I want this?" Hyatt moved away from the door stalking towards Buffy slowly, staring her down. She came face to face with the slayer, their bodies just inches apart, faces so close they were breathing each other's breath "Do I want this?" Hyatt repeated, lifting a hand she traced Buffy's lips dipping her finger just inside before bringing it to her own lips and tasting. When she was positive she had Buffy's undivided attention and complete arousal at her command she trailed the same hand from her lips downward until she reached the elastic of her underwear. Slowly she slid her fingers inside.
Buffy's eyes followed her hand in it's entire journey, staring fixedly when it disappeared beneath the sensible white bikini cut briefs.
Hyatt bit her lower lip and chuckled at the helplessly fixated look on Buffy's face. She decided to see how far she could push the slayer before she simply took her. She liked it that way. Slowly she descended further, allowing her fingers to slide between the other set of lips and gather some of the moisture there. Bringing her wet fingers to her mouth she tasted one and met Buffy's entranced gaze head on. Smiling in sultry abandon she licked her lips "Oh I'd say I want this"
Buffy captured her hand sucking the other two fingers clean before tasting the third as Hyatt had. Pulling the other girl roughly against her, she spun and shoved Hyatt towards the bed holding her underwear and tearing it off as she went beyond it's stretch range.
Hyatt laughed outright when she landed on the bed completely bare-assed.
"You're a tease" Buffy growled bodily tackling Hyatt when she sat up. In seconds she had the sweatshirt and undershirt off and was nipping at the newly exposed skin.
Hyatt's chuckles turned to moans as Buffy studiously worked her way down her body. She nipped from her neck to her navel, taking time to stop and torture her nipples. Hyatt squirmed as she tried to relieve Buffy of her own clothing, but the slayer wasn't making it easy for her.
Buffy suddenly had the feeling that enough of her wasn't touching Hyatt so she sat up, still straddling her lover and began pulling off her own clothes.
Hyatt simply lay back and enjoyed the slayers form as it was rapidly exposed to her "In a hurry?"
"Shut up" Buffy growled lifting her lips to remove her jeans.
"No" Hyatt reached up and raked her short nails down Buffy's torso.
Buffy caught her hands and pinned them above her head "What did I say?" she growled as she stretched her paler form over the slightly taller one of her girlfriend.
Hyatt smirked and licked Buffy's pursed lips.
"God I love it when you misbehave" Buffy half growled half groaned as she pressed her own form firmly against Hyatt's "Don't move your hands" she commanded as she released the girls wrists and lifted her spread legs to wrap around her waist.
"I can't touch you?" Hyatt whined "That's not fair"
"Yes it is" Buffy gave her a mysterious smiled and hefted the girls hips a little higher.
Hyatt's eyes widened when she realized what Buffy was about to do. Buffy simply wiggled her brows evilly and lifted Hyatt's hips to her shoulders "Don't scream"
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Tara muffled another scream as Willow once again changed the position of her fingers inside. She arched up off the bed not sure if she were trying to get closer or trying to get away.
Willow smiled softly and leaned in to lick Tara's throbbing nub of femininity causing the blonde to let of a strangled squeak as her legs gave out and her hips came crashing down on the bed.
Willow somehow managed to keep herself inside throughout the sudden movements. Spreading her fingers she stretched Tara just enough to add a fourth digit into the mix.
"Tara?" Willow singsonged as she thrust into her lover.
"Ungg" was all Tara could manage as she clutched at the sheets with her fingers and her toes curled.
Willow found Tara's clit with her thumb, pressing and flicking it until the other wiccan gasped in agony as her body begged for it's release and the end of Willow's near constant torture.
"I love you. I love you. I love you" Willow whispered over and over in Tara's ear as she continued to pleasure her lover beyond clear thought.
Tara reacted instinctively taking Willows free hand in her own and sending all the feelings of love she possessed for the redhead through their tangled fingers.
Willow's body began to respond in a way that surprised her. She felt herself swell and moisten as if she too were being touched and teased. Curling her fingers inside Tara she jerked as well when she felt the phantom caress of her own fingers inside herself.
"I...love...you...back" Tara finished the spell she'd started when she'd taken Willow's hand.
Willow's eyes widened but she didn't stop caressing Tara "You cheated"
"You deserve it" Tara grunted as she surrendered her voice again to the overwhelming pleasure of Willow's touch.
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Buffy was feasting. She dove her tongue into the warm welcoming wetness of Hyatt's slit, drinking her in.
Hyatt arched off the bed again, her toes curling tightly on Buffy's back.
Buffy continuously dipped her tongue inside, literally tasting Hyatt from the inside out, elongating her orgasm past it's first peak and into it's second, bringing her to the border of the third before withdrawing.
"No, no, no, no.." Hyatt turned her head from side to side when Buffy's mouth withdrew from her.
"You want more?" Buffy teased kissing her way up Hyatt's sweat soaked body.
"Yes, please?" Hyatt managed in a moment of clarity before Buffy reached her sensitive breasts.
"You know what I said about screaming?" Buffy kissed up Hyatt's chest, spending a few minutes nipping and licking her neck and leaving her mark.
Hyatt only managed a nod.
"Forget about it" Buffy whispered into her ear seconds before her fingers dove inside...
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Willow was distracting herself. Every time she touched Tara she felt the sensation in her own loins.
Leaning forward she brushed her lips across the witch's sensitive nipples and twitched herself when she felt her own phantom caress.
"Why didn't we ever do this spell before?" Willow asked around the nipple that she now held firmly in her mouth.
"It's very distracting" Tara ran a hand through Willow's tangled locks, tugging her face down "I'll show you how distracting some other time"
Willow smiled and licked her way down Tara's body. Over her belly and tracing her lips she finally came to the shaved lips beneath her trimmed curls at the apex of her girl friends thighs "I can smell you baby" she whispered breathing on the passion soaked lips of Tara's femininity.
"Now you can taste me" Tara smirked.
Willow wiped the smirk off her face and replaced it with a look of astonished passion moments later.
Tara lifted her hips off the bed, pressing them firmly against Willow's face trying to force the redheads tongue deeper inside her. Willow in turn grasped her hips holding them steady as she began to write messages to her lover with her tongue. They soon became random movements when her own talent was felt on herself.
Both of them crying out in their mutual climax...
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Buffy rubbed her nose in Hyatt's slit, causing the helpless little sounds to come louder and faster.
Hyatt's hips thrust rhythmically against Buffy's face and fingers. The sensation from the slayer sucking her clit and thrusting steadily into her was becoming too much.
She felt the build up of pleasure and energy as Buffy worked her own little magic on her body.
Suddenly she felt the slayer push against the bottom of her legs spreading them further apart as she led her knee's up to her chest, revealing more of her mound and opening and giving the slayer more room to work with.
Buffy smiled, her teeth rolling Hyatt's clit gently as she slid a fourth finger in and curled them preparing to do things she'd only dreamed about.
Hyatt felt the presence of the fourth and the sensation of them curling together and knew what the slayer planned to do. Before she could say 'yay' or 'nay' on the subject, Buffy tucked her thumb under and thrust, her entire hand sliding in with a wet sounding pop.
Hyatt clutched at the sheet when she felt herself being stretched wider, ripping the fine cotton to shreds.
Buffy turned her hand to an angle then froze in astonishment when Hyatt screamed, coming on her fist, the flexing of her inner muscles like a vice.
Buffy wasn't sure if she were hearing things or not, but it sounded for a moment as if Hyatt had three voice, all screaming in climax before everything went silent.
Hyatt slid into unconsciousness. Everything was silent, not even the creaking of the house to interrupt.
"Whoa" Buffy birthed her hand from inside her lover and curled up behind her.
With a bark of surprise she felt herself climax when she fit their bodies together, rubbing herself against Hyatt's bent leg as they lay facing each other.
Wave after wave assaulted the slayer's body, climaxing three times before slipping into a unconscious state.
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Downstairs Faith and Mycah stared at each other unsure of what to say.
"Well they'll be happy tomorrow" Mycah tossed the dishrag into the sink.
"Or to sore to walk from the sound of it" Faith dried the last dish and put it away.
Mycah chuckled. Seconds later she froze and sniffed the air "You smell that?"
Faith too sniffed, her face lighting up "Smells like Red's perfume"
"That's not perfume. That's what sex magick smells like" Mycah punched Faith in the arm.
"Red? Sex magick?" Faith stood perplexed in the kitchen "But she's such a prude"